Show WHAT ARE WE COMING TO when a city 11 like salt lake after announcing a surplus at the beginning of the new year approximating goes out and borrows to meet operating expenses for the first quarter of the new year and declares that it will borrow more on tax anticipation bonds before the year is over the average uninitiated citizen and taxpayer naturally wonders how long it will be until 1 his stock in the municipal corporation ceases to have a real intrinsic value value of any character other than for tax levying purposes if the taxpayers dont call a halt on present methods of conducting municipal county and state business pretty soon all efforts to bring new people and new enterprises into this city and state will prove abortive the utah taxpayers association has been doing good work for some time past in demanding that public expenditures be curtailed and that needs for funds be explained there must be more of that kind of work and if presumed wrongs are to be righted and the taxpayer gets a run for his money it will be necessary fo for F every property taxpayer in the state to join that association and contribute to the fund that will be necessary to prosecute the fight and put the brakes on the present wild orgie of blowing the peoples money no one having the welfare of salt lake at heart wishes to io see improvements cease no one worth while wishes to stop the growth orthis of this city or the state all that is wanted is to know and feel t that hat public moneys are being legitimately expended and that value received is obtained if results resl cannot be obtained through the men now entrusted with the proper conduct of public business the quicker the taxpayers taxpayer organize and vote for changes the better something has got to be done soon or the life w will ill be D sapped out of business and stagnation will follow A village viliam the size of this which is run in the hole to the extent of 01 a year for operating expenses can expect to con pay a higher rate of taxes and at the same tinie time wit wi ness the deficit climb to larger and larger amounts right now the people of this city are being feduk fe fed dup up I 1 11 3 ll propaganda yanda with a purpose of having them sanction a 1 bond issue for the building of a new water storage sto rag reservoir in big cottonwood onwood ott canyon not a breath is of how bow much willbe necessary to buy up the lands on which w n the reservoir willbe willibe built nor who the vendors will be explanation is forthcoming of how the highway in the canyon can be kept open when the canyon is dammed off nor what that item of expense will be all we are being told now is that such a reservoir must be built one argument has been that we are passing through an awfully dry winter that we can not hope to pull through next summer without a serious water shortage now that regular winter weather is bringing the snows and a water famine is unlikely it is said the new water reservoir advocates are praying that the good lord will hold back the snowstorms snow storms and rains until after the bond election has been carried if it is possible to make this town grow and prosper as it should and the need for another reservoir develops with it no one will oppose the scheme until such a change is at least started it has been suggested by a wag that provision be made to move the sunnyside Sunny side reservoir over into the mouth of big cottonwood where it might be made to hold water and thus save the or at least a portion of it until such time as a grab of that size would have some justification in the meantime why prevent the mosquito commission from spending for mosquito abatement purposes last year they did not have much more than enough money to drag away a few barrels of crankcase crank case drainage oil from local garages and dump the stuff into the breeding pools along the mhd river bottoms west of town it does not seem necessary that the commission should sell tax anticipation notes to get this the city has a surplus of why not let the commission have a part of that idle money it can be paid back next december and then the fhe commission commission can borrow again that 3 worth of mosquitos must be subdued some way |